Growth
How people get bigger inside the team than they came in.
- Levels and legible progression
A written ladder is for the engineer first. Performance, eval, and promotion fall out of it.
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- The 1:1 as the primary instrumentSoon
A practice of hearing what the person cannot say in Slack.
- Stretch, sponsorship, exposureSoon
Growth happens outside the job description.
- Growing engineers whose output is AI-augmentedSoon
A new developmental arc, and the trap of rewarding volume over judgment.